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Fintech Funding Jumped 27% In 2025 With Fewer Deals But Bigger Checks

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Global venture funding to fintech startups climbed in 2025 to its highest level in several quarters, boosted by later-stage deals, Crunchbase data shows. Total global funding to VC-backed financial technology startups totaled $51.8 billion for the year, per Crunchbase data. That’s a fairly significant – 27% – increase from 2024’s total of $40.8 billion raised. […]

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Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta, co-founders of Skild AI.

Robotics Startup Skild AI Lands $1.4B, Tripling Valuation To $14B In Just 7 Months

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Skild AI, a robotics company building an “omni-bodied” brain to operate any robot for any task, announced Wednesday that it has raised $1.4 billion, tripling its valuation to over $14 billion. The fundraise comes just over seven months after Skild raised a $135 million Series B at a $4.5 billion valuation. SoftBank Group led the

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Asian Startup Funding Fell In 2025 But Rose In Q4

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Funding to Asia-based startups ticked lower in 2025. Even so, the fourth quarter closed out the annum on an up note, with the highest quarterly investment tally of the year, Crunchbase data shows. In total, investors poured $67.5 billion into reported seed- through growth-stage rounds for companies across Asia in last year, per Crunchbase data.

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Defense Tech Unicorn Onebrief Raises $200M, Acquires Seed Startup As VC Funding For Military-Related Tech Surges

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Defense tech startup Onebrief has raised another $200 million and acquired a small battle simulation company, Axios reported. The deals follow on the heels of a record-setting year for venture investment into defense tech startups, per Crunchbase data. Battery Ventures and Sapphire Ventures led the Series D funding for Honolulu-based Onebrief. Investors including Salesforce Ventures

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Brian Schiff and Sam Krut, co-founders of Flip. [Courtesy photo]

Flip Raises $20M Series A For Its Verticalized Approach To AI-Based Customer Service

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Flip, a startup that claims to offer an Amazon Alexa-like voice AI experience for businesses, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively. CEO Brian Schiff and CRO Sam Krut met a decade ago in college and began building different ventures together. After a few pivots, they raised

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LatAm Startup Funding Rebounds In 2025 As Mexico Sees Surge In Investment And VCs Remain Bullish On Region

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Latin American startup investment climbed by 14.3% in 2025, driven by a boost in both early- and late-stage funding, Crunchbase data shows. Overall, venture funding in the region increased to $4.1 billion across seed- through growth-stage deals in 2025, up from $3.6 billion in 2024. Investors active in the area who spoke with Crunchbase News

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: xAI Leads As 2026 Is Off To A Brisk Start

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Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2025 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last year’s biggest funding deal

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A16z Raises $15B In New Funds, Its Largest Haul To Date, Promises To Back Startups Advancing U.S. Interests

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Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz on Friday announced $15 billion in new funds, its largest fundraising haul to date, with the firm promising to back startups in AI, crypto and beyond that it says advance American interests.  The new funds include $6.75 billion for its growth fund. It also raised $1.176 billion for its

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Large American VCs Topped 2025 Active Investor Ranks, Including A16Z, Accel And Sequoia

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If you’re looking for new up-and-comers in venture capital, don’t read our rankings of the most active investors in 2025.  That’s because this past year, the list almost exclusively featured longstanding, familiar names. These are firms that routinely topped prior rankings, and for the most part they only got busier in 2025. This is certainly

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North American Startup Funding Soared 46% In 2025, Driven By AI Boom

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A boom year for North American startup funding ended on an up note. Investors poured $280 billion into seed through growth-stage rounds for U.S. and Canadian companies in 2025, per Crunchbase data. It was the highest annual total in four years, with funding up a whopping 46% from 2024. The fourth quarter also delivered a

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